Scouring pad handle



Sept. 17, 1935` J. FluMEFREDDo s'coURING PAD HANDLE Original Filed' March 2l INVENTOR.

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`and efficient means for Patented Sept. 17, 1935 "UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 2,014,494 SCOURING PAD HANDLE John Fiumefreddo, Chicago, Ill.

Application March 21, 1933, Seal No. 661,992 Renewed February 12, 1935 2 Claims.

This invention relates to improvements in handies for removably holding a pad of steel wool or like material when used for scouring or cleaning kitchen utensils and the like.

The primary object of the present invention is to provide a scouring pad handle of the above kind which is extremely simple in construction and by means of which use of the pad is greatly facilitated.

A more specific provide a handle of the above kind having simple positively engaging and gripping the scouring pad so as to insure against accidental detachment thereof from the handle while presenting the pad for most efficient use in the scouring operation. y

Other objects and features of the invention will become apparent from the following description when'considered in connection with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure 1 is an elevational view, partly broken away and in section, showing a scouring pad provided with a handle constructed in accordance with the present invention.

Figure 2 is a transverse section on line 2-2 of Figure l; and

Figure 3 is a perspective view of the handle with the gripping members'released and the scouring pad detached.

Referring more in detail to the drawing, the present scouring pad handle or holder comprises a member formed of a single piece of spring wire centrally bent upon itself to provide an open loop 5 at the bend and to present a pair of legs 6 and 1 whose inner portions are twisted together as at 8 and whose intermediate portions are then separated and extended for a short distance parallel with each other as at 9, after which the legs arebentto cross each other as at I0. After crossing each other, the outer portions of the legs 6 and 1 extend outwardly in slightly diverging relation and terminate in free outer ends II extending outwardlylat an acute angle with their respective legs.

A tubular handle I2 is slipped onto the wire member as far as the loop 5 will allow before the intermediate and outer portions of the legs are separated and bent at 9 and IIl and before the ends I I are bent into position, the handle tightly fitting the shank Yof the wire member formed by twisting the leg portions'thereof as at 8. The outer end of the handle I? has its bore slightly enlarged to accommodate the parallel portions 9v 'f the legs -6 and 1 with suicentclearance to permit relative lateral movement of these porobject of the invention is tov tions and allow the outer portions of the legs Ii and 1 to assume their normal separated slightly diverging condition as shown in Figure 3. It will of course be understood that the outer portions of the legs 6 and 1 are resilient and normally tensioned to assume their Vdiverging relation as shown in Figure 3.

Slidable on the outer portions of the legs 6 and 1 is a ring I3 which, when retracted to the part I0 where the legs cross each other, releases the outer 10 portions of said legs and permits them to expand to their normally diverging relation as shown in Figure 3, and which, when slid outwardly, contracts the outer portions of the legs 6 and 1 toward each other for` rm gripping engagement 5 with the inner portion of a scouring pad I4 placed between` such outer portions of the legs. The scouring pad I4 is of ordinary or well known construction, consisting of a quantity of steel wool or the like, and in use the pad is placed between 20 the outer portions of the legs 6 and 1 when the ring I3 is retracted to the position of Figure 3, portions of the pad being engaged with the outwardly directed ends I I of the legs 6 and 1. The ring I3 is then slid outwardly so as to grip the 25 pad between the outer portions of the legs 6 and 1 and to crowd the adjacent portion of the pad into positive engagement with the hooked ends of the legs formed by the portions II. The portions II positively prevent accidental detachment 30 of the pad which is crowded into firm eng-agement with said ends I I by the ring I3 when it is slid to the position of Figure l, the pad being also tightly gripped between the outer portions of the legs is seen in Figure 2. When the pad has served its usefulness, it may be readily removed so that a new one may be substituted therefor, simply by retracting ring I3 and then disengaging the pad from the outwardly and rearwardly directed ends II of the legs. l

It will be seen that the present holder or handle is extremely simple and durable in construction, inexpensive to manufacture and efcient in use.

What I claim as new is:

1. A scouring pad holder or handle including a member formed of a single piece of resilient wire centrally bent upon itself to form an open loop and to present a pair of legs having their inner portions twisted together to form a shank, the re-v maining portions of the legs being crossed at an intermediate point and then extended in normally diverging relation, said legs terminating in free outer ends extending outwardly at an acute angle with their respective legs and on which the pad is adapted to be engaged, and a ring slidable .on the outer portions of the legs and movable outwardly to contract such outer portions of the legs toward each other into gripping engagement with the pad and to rmly crowd the pad into engagement with said free outer ends of the legs.

2. A scouring pad holder or handle including a member formed of a single piece of resilient wire centrally bent upon itself to form an open loop and to present a pair of legs having their inner portions twisted together to form a shank, the remaining portions of the legs being crossed at an intermediate point and then extended in normally diverging relation, said legs terminating in free outer ends extending outwardly at an acute angle with their respective legs and on which the pad is adapted to be engaged, and a ring slldable on the outer portions o! the legs and movable outwardly to contract such outer portions of the legs toward each other into gripping engagement with the pad and to firmly crowd the pad into engagement with said free luter ends of the legs, a tubular handle tightlx ntted on the shank against the open loop, said handle having its outer portion formed with an enlarged bore and extending outwardly to the point where the legs are crossed.

JOHN FIUMEFREDDO. 

